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Today we made it to round 2 of the National Venture Plan Competition--top 100 startups nationally.

Last week the city of Rotterdam installed the 3 wind stations that we built for them, allowing them to measure which spot on the roof is the best for placing wind turbines. We also shipped charging poles to several countries, among them were two beautiful personalized versions for a city in Denmark. In the Netherlands we installed for the city of Waalwijk a solar off grid charging pole. Every day we try to contribute to the energy transition.

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Today we signed an agreement for the development and manufacturing of a series of motors/generators exactly suited to our turbines' needs, and they will be made in the US! The whole area of electronics for the turbines has been a challenge for us this past year, especially with supply chain, quality, and expense issues from foreign manufacturers. After the initial and significant investment in design and tooling over the coming months (for which we will have to thank those of you reading this for investing and continuing to invest) and after production in moderate quantities, we will be able to beat the price of generator production in low-cost countries but with American quality. We are glad to add this product to our existing high quality Dutch suppliers of the metal and fiberglass works, and plan to export them to the EU.

By the way, the generators will reportedly have an efficiency of 97% in the low wind speed ranges, thereby supplementing our turbines' ability to start spinning in low winds.  And they will all be built with corrosion resistance.

We are also in discussions about building the turbines themselves in the US for the North American market. Charging systems will continue to be made in the Netherlands.

We have received many orders for charging stations from all over Europe and now our offices are crowded with boxes. Below there is a picture with our showroom with packages of SL and Z charging stations ready for national and international shipment. They are heading the coming days to DE, BE, and NL, contributing to e-bike charging infrastructure.    

Now, in the lower picture, who can guess what the clods of grass in the lower left are for?

1. We just received an order from the city of Rotterdam for 17,000 Euros worth of e-bike charging poles.

2. We will have a virtual exhibition booth at a business conference for Long Island , NY in October, as part of our plan to develop a strong sales presence in downstate NY in the coming year.

Today the patent Two-Bladed Vertical Axis Wind Turbines was granted in India. (already in several other countries such as US, Canada, Australia, EU, Israel)

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These graphics from our accounting/sales software in Europe show the pipeline for turbines and then charging systems. This shows us that the better long term business is the turbines, but the charging systems are a faster sale and provide faster cash flow. So we are working overtime on both. In both cases, the prospects are excellent.

There is also a small pipeline, not shown, in the US and elsewhere.

We did some testing at our R&D center before delivering to a customer. .

We are dealing with challenges now like getting the right electronics and making improvements in the mechanics of the manufacturing. A lot of work, but, as you see, moving forward steadily.

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I thought it would be fun for you to see the steps of delivering a 3 meter turbine to a customer in the Netherlands. Of course we are learning from the process and will automate it more in the future.

Picture 1: Packed turbine at our offices after a little "elbow grease"

Picture 2: Turbine in the truck

Picture 3: At the customer's facility

Our EU daughter company was just approved by the Dutch government for a 20% rebate on research and development costs there, including salaried personnel and equipment. Approved through 2021.

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In Europe, countries are thinking about powering transportation in a more sustainable way. In Germany, one of our partners is working on an innovative concept of a mix of solar and wind energy. In the animation, you can see our Flower Turbines on a roof over the highway. This  should be built soon to use the space on European highways for energy generation and electric transportation. A nice example of how Flower Turbines can partner for innovation.

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Our orders in Europe for electric bike charging poles are continuing to increase, and we are preparing to fulfill those orders by kicking up production. Here you can see a few pictures from that process.

Grijs Naar Groen (Gray to Green), a consulting firm in the Netherlands, paid for a Flower Turbine 1-meter high demonstration unit for their showroom in the Netherlands. Shown here with our EU director Roy Osinga.  

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The PortXL program in early 2019 was a big help in launching our increasingly successful EU operations. Here is a link to a video about PortXL. You can catch some quick views of our EU Director, Roy, and a short clip towards the end of him and intern Jordan standing with the president of a port in Italy next to our turbine.

For anyone interested in the growing discussion about the role of e-bikes in modern cities--and this is relevant to our electric bike charging stations--this article from the NY Times was forwarded to me by your fellow investor and my long-time college friend, Eric Allen.

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Here are nice photos of some of our charging units in our Rotterdam assembly area.

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One of our US trademarks for marketing charging stations, the words "Charge To Go" was just published by the US Patent and Trademark Organization.

One of our current challenges is getting the correct generator (motor) and turbine match for all the turbine sizes. The custom piece of equipment you see here enables us to spin the generator at different speeds and test its performance and adherence to specifications independently of the turbine. Secondarily, it enables us to see how our charge controllers handle the output of the generator because then we know exactly what the generator can produce. Currently we have been using a lathe, which has limitations on  the lower end of its speed of motion and does not include other measurement equipment. That has been pretty good, and alerted us to the fact that some suppliers did not supply what they said they were supplying. This cost us around $5000.

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These are used to provide a foundation in earth or on cement to anchor the on-grid charging poles (front and right) or the off-grid solar and wind charging poles (left).

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These will be tested with electronics, and the two red ones will go to a customer, and the white one will be part of our welcome display for now.

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This video gives you an idea of the electronic testing we do in our R&D center after we order a generator.

In this movie, https://vimeo.com/428252815, we answer a question often asked about the durability of our turbines. This one is fresh off the production line. It is mounted on a truck driving 100 kilometers per hour and is holding up just fine. (Of course this was done on a secluded country road.)

On June 5, our Regional Director EU signed a non-exclusive distribution contract for e-bike charging with a big German electric company. This will allow the Tulip Power charging products to become part of their product portfolio.  In early July, a meeting with their sales staff of 20 will acquaint them with the charging solutions so they can sell for us to their customers. Aside from the sales involved, it is a nice confirmation of the quality of our workmanship, without which it is usually not possible to penetrate the German market.

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Some of them are configured for sales in the US with US sockets. We are waiting to hear about one proposal in the US right now. (I'd like to point out, in respect to a recently posted question about cash flow and profitability, that we need to make and pay for orders in advance in order to have the products available for shipping. That is one reason why we, and most startup, growing companies, need investment, because we have to invest in the product in many cases before we have sold the product. One of the books I had to read at UCLA Business School was on this theme, of the danger of fast growth to companies when they think they can survive simply by selling a product without increasing the investment capital at the same time.)

This is from one of the mentors from the PortXL accelerator program in Rotterdam that recently came for a follow up visit: "Flower Turbines is the fastest growing start-up I've seen as a mentor. When they came in Port XL, they had a good idea; within a year they have a global presence, went from idea to working prototypes to market ready solutions, acquired capital, and even took over a business and integrated that into their own product line."  Dennis de Witte, mentor PortXL & co-founder AquaSmartXL 

This article discusses the big picture. The world has seen how much one event can send shock waves through the world. We had a taste of this in past energy crises. Renewable energy presents an opportunity to prevent another.

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1. To a city in south of Netherlands a solar off grid bicycle charging pole with power sockets and USB charging to be delivered in June for placement in public space

2. To an energy advisor: 2 one-meter turbines and a demo turbine for his showroom

3. To a private person living near the water, a 1-meter turbine for his roof

4. To an energy company in Germany a charging pole in their company colors to be delivered in June

This is also our new default color for this size.

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I am sometimes asked about recycling the turbines at the end of their lives. So the metal is no problem, always done. The question is the fiberglass. Here are some excerpts from a newsletter from WindEurope, where they are a bit more advanced in this respect. The simple answer, in relation to the large wind turbine blades, is recycling in cement:

"Composite materials are being recycled today through cement co-processing, where the mineral components are reused in the cement, and the organic fraction replaces coal as a fuel. Through that process, the CO2 output of the cement manufacturing process can be significantly reduced (up to 16 % reduction is possible if composites represent 75 % of cement raw materials). Cement co-processing is commercially available for processing large volumes of waste (albeit not in all geographies).

"Besides recycling through cement co-processing, alternative technologies like mechanical recycling, solvolysis and pyrolysis are being developed, ultimately providing the industry with additional solutions for end-of-life."

Today, Flower Turbines advanced to the quarter-finals of a competition run by Pepperdine University's Business School for the most fundable companies in 2020.

One of our expansion plans is not just externally for sales of a suite of products but also internally to have specific electronics designs that match our specific needs more closely. We are involved right now in investigating contractors, subject matter experts, and suppliers, one of them in the US, to make our own brands or working with others to customize their existing products for turbine motors and charge controllers.

These are on the way to the factory with the fiberglass blades

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Our northern European market penetration is increasing in spite of the corona. slowdown. We just received another order from Germany, where several companies are reselling our charging poles. We just got payment on one of our orders in the Netherlands. It shows that providing quality and sustainable products is sustainable. Frankly, we are overwhelmed by the interest in our products.

Today I'm attending a virtual conference from Israel on electric vehicles, and making lots of contacts, mostly in Israel and the EU, but also a few from the US. Our goal is to be one of the infrastructure providers in this fast-growing industry.

This filing is relevant mostly to the 1 meter turbine, how to attach the blades to the shaft. I don't like to give details until we file the full patent, but let me show you the problem we address. The following photo shows a "Brand X" turbine. They try to attach a curved blade (1) to the central shaft using a rod in a hole in the blade with a flat washer and nut (2). The result is folds in the blades (3) that destroy the blades within a few years. Believe it or not, this brand is often bought by other companies and re-branded as their own! So our patent addresses solutions to this problem, one of which is implemented in our upcoming 1 meter turbine version. The value of this is that it prevents companies from copying one more competitive advantage of our smallest model. And it distinguishes our company as being higher quality. I'm sure you all can understand easily how this would make sense to you as a customer.

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Here are pictures of our latest set of grid-connected (That is why there is no turbine on top; note the business case: We can provide off-grid with turbines where needed or the electricity price is high, and we can also make sales with our on-grid product without turbines where the electricity cost is low) charging poles delivered to our EU daughter company headquarters.

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We just sent out an invoice for over 10,000 Euros for charging stations for a golf course.

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A few small charging poles in the Netherlands. Sending out a formal bill shortly.

As expected, the charging pole product line is adding sales faster than traditional turbine sales, at least for now.

We started a proposal this week for adding bicycle charging to a university in the US through an executive there. Don't expect immediate results! But we are on the way.

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Some people are asking that question. The answer is that it is definitely slowing down progress in the US as it prevents in-person and on-site meetings and there is an economic shock from strict closures. In the Netherlands, however, the location of most of our current activity, the rules are much more reasonable, and business is going on, so we are continuing to make progress with both manufacturing and customers. The only specific delay is that we were contacted by a major company about wind turbines for its Belgian headquarters, but Belgium is under strict closure, so we can't meet with them yet.

Part of the shaft for the 3 meter high turbine (enough parts for 5 shafts):

Partially assembled:

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A customer in the Netherlands wants a group of 3 meter high turbines with red blades, so here they are coming off production.

Next photo: Assembled the 1 meter turbine blades, seen here in our wind tunnel next to our 3 meter demo version, and mounted on a generator. We are planning on testing of associated electronics over the next week.

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Accounting firm Deloitte says 300 million electric bikes will be out on the world's roads by 2023, which is 50 percent more than today. Click here for the article.

It's good to be a player in a rapidly expanding market. Our chargers can be an important support of that market.

Michael Rubino is in charge of developing our sales in Long Island, a good potential market.

A cemetery! No, it's not to recharge broomsticks on Halloween. A company is ordering 5000 Euros of charging poles so that when people visit, it's more ecological and less expensive to come on an electric bike instead of a long black limousine. And the bikes don't jam up the parking space. You might say Flower Turbines is bringing a new market to life.

I saw this in Wind Energy Smart Brief, sent to members of the American Wind Energy Association: 

Many utilities are prioritizing low-cost wind and solar generation over fossil fuels to meet electrical demand during the coronavirus, exacerbating the financial challenge faced by oil, gas and coal companies, writes Ivan Penn, citing the views of analysts at Raymond James & Associates. Renewables are expected to account for 20.7% of US electrical generation in 2020 and 20% through 2022, according to Raymond James.

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I've been writing a lot about our success in the EU, and you are probably wondering about the US. So the US is next on our business development list. The US is behind Europe now in making the transition to clean energy, but we see increasing interest in it in some areas of the US. My plan is to concentrate on building regional sales teams in a few key areas, just as it was successful in the Netherlands. One is downstate NY and the Northeast. I just hired part-time a salesperson knowledgeable in the energy space to concentrate on Long Island. I'm also trying to work on downstate NY with some partners, including one of you, and also with a solar company in the lower NY area. I'm also interviewing potential partners in some other key areas of the US.

Here is a wind map of New York,  whose generally good wind speeds shows why the strategy of starting on the downstate area, where electricity costs are also high, makes sense.

At our hub for expanding in Europe, we had another really good week. This article in a major Dutch paper (note the local pride in the article which could have used some corrections) set off a flurry of calls about potential purchases that are getting into our pipeline. In addition to proceeding with existing contracts, here is an idea of what is going on (we can't give specific names yet)--with thanks to our team there, which has reached a critical mass with a set of different office and computer skills, project management, electrical engineering, and sales.

A big building company

A large food factory

A company that is going to build a new energy-neutral factory and wants our wind turbines and solar to generate their power

A group of 25 houses that want our 1 meter turbines on their roofs

Several quotes from electrical installation companies and also from an electricity company for our charging poles

A municipality in the north of the Netherlands that wants to make their city buildings sustainable 

A co-development of another charging product and market

A request to meet with a well-known multinational corporation's site in Belgium

If necessary, right click for the browser to translate into English.

https://www.duurzaambedrijfsleven.nl/energietransitie-business/33563/compacte-turbine

Aside from some operational and supplier commitments, a major use of the funds recently raised will be to give current and recent employees (1 recently added in the US--more on this in coming weeks) the assurance that we can cover their employment for the medium term. So thanks to those who have invested and thereby enabled us to give as much of a sense of security as a startup can give its employees in a time when many are losing their jobs. And, by the way, it of course helps your investment because we generate a team spirit by sticking by our people.

Our manufacturing is moving ahead, and we are proud to be associated with respected, quality companies in the Netherlands. Here are glimpses of the behind the scenes work on our products.

(The following shot shows an idea of how the electronics are assembled, but is not exactly the way ours are done.)

One of our big successes in late 2019/early 2020 was acquiring a charging product line at a large discount. This enhances our customer reach and helps make us a bigger player in the renewable energy space. So we will offer not just wind-powered bike/scooter charging stations, but many other types of stations. Here are pictures of our new product line, Tulip Power. The first picture shows Roy holding up the certificate for winning the Dutch government energy award in 2019.

Here is Diego sitting on our solar charging bench and recharging his cell phone.

The next picture is one of our on-grid charging poles.

An off-grid solar charging pole:

Greetings to our followers and former investors, who have helped us reach the point of success we are enjoying now. It’s your contributions that have helped us file more patents, do more engineering, and acquire a related, already successful, European business of electrical bike charging. We are aiming for global success and want to keep growing as fast as we can. That is why we have a special time based bonus. We are offering 15% bonus shares to those who invest during the first 48 hours of our campaign. 

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